Description
The Story of a British Shipping Company’s 100 Year Involvement in Trade with South Africa and the History of Ellerman & Bucknall, Its South African Subsidiary.
Published 100 years after the first Bucknall ship sailed from London with cargo for Cape ports, records one company’s role in South Africa’s seaborne trade over that period. None of the names of the various British shipping companies which traded to South Africa in 1892 is in use today – except that of Bucknalls which is still borne by the South African agency company.
This book traces 70 years of ownership by Sir John Ellerman and his son and tells the intriguing story of why the company thereafter changed hands five times in only 20 years. And now another link with the past has been forged with the acquisition of Ellerman Lines by P&O, the oldest and largest British shipping group whose passenger ships called at the Cape as far back as 1842.
